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Monday, August 25, 2014

Opportunity...

The inauguralHaller
Prize for Development Journalismwas
launched inJune 2014.
The ethos of Dr Rene Haller and the Haller Foundation is to promote and
share knowledge. The same motivation has led to the establishment of
this Prize.

The aim of the Prize is to encourage and advance excellent journalistic investigation of the
charitable and entrepreneurial development sectors in sub-Saharan Africa.

Sub-Saharan
African nationals, resident in the region, are invited to submit an
article focusing on any aspect of development in sub-Saharan Africa.

There
are many crucial development issues that merit closer scrutiny or wider
exposure but tend to be under-represented in the media. The Haller
Prize aims to highlight some of
these issues by exposing failings and encouraging best practice. It was
conceived as a force for positive change in the region.

The Prize will be awarded for an unpublished article of up to 1,000 words in length.
The topic could, for example, be:

·The success or failure of a charity- or donor-funded programme

·A specific issue e.g. the impact of oil or gas exploration

·The Investigation of an infrastructure development

·The role of civil society and grassroots organisations

·The effects (positive or negative) of up-scaling e.g. in agriculture

·Technology e.g. in improving banking for the unbanked, agriculture, health

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Entries must be received by 24.00hrs. GMT on Friday 19thSeptember
2014.

Entries
will be judged by an independent panel of international repute. The
Prize ceremony will take place in Nairobi on Tuesday 18thNovember
2014. A round-table discussion, chaired by the BBC’s Mary Harper, will
also be held that evening with high-profile journalists and editors
debating the topic “Does Africa Need Development Journalism?”